All eHosting Virtual Private Servers have SSH enabled to allow command line management of the servers. You are able to update, reboot and shutdown your server from the command line.
Feature Tutorial – https://tonyteaches.tech/putty-ssh-windows-tutorial/
On Windows client computers, we suggest using Putty (available from https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html) – A tutorial is available here.
Following is an example of updating the server and completing a reboot – commands typed in are in bold text.
Welcome to Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS (GNU/Linux 4.4.0-141-generic x86_64) * Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com * Management: https://landscape.canonical.com * Support: https://ubuntu.com/advantage 27 packages can be updated. 20 updates are security updates. New release '18.04.1 LTS' available. Run 'do-release-upgrade' to upgrade to it. Last login: Fri Jan 11 11:24:11 2019 from 172.30.10.181 vpsuser@server:~nbsp;sudo apt update ; sudo apt -y upgrade ; sudo apt autoremove
[sudo] password for vpsuser: password
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27 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
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The following packages will be upgraded:
ca-certificates initramfs-tools initramfs-tools-bin initramfs-tools-core
krb5-locales libcups2 libcupsimage2 libgssapi-krb5-2 libk5crypto3 libkrb5-3
libkrb5support0 libpam-systemd libpolkit-agent-1-0 libpolkit-backend-1-0
libpolkit-gobject-1-0 libsystemd0 libudev1 php-pear policykit-1
python3-software-properties qemu-guest-agent software-properties-common
systemd systemd-sysv tzdata udev update-notifier-common
27 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
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Setting up tzdata (2018i-0ubuntu0.16.04) ...Current default time zone: 'Australia/Brisbane'
Local time is now: Sun Jan 20 15:44:41 AEST 2019.
Universal Time is now: Sun Jan 20 05:44:41 UTC 2019.
Run 'dpkg-reconfigure tzdata' if you wish to change it.Setting up ca-certificates (20170717~16.04.2) ...
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W: mdadm: /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf defines no arrays.
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0 added, 0 removed; done.
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Reading package lists... Done
vpsuser@server:~$ sudo shutdown -r now
Connection closed by remote host
